Qui Custodiet Ipsos Custodies ~ Who will Guard the Guards?
The National Security Agency’s TRANSLTR has being trying to break a code for over eighteen hours.
It transpires that the NSA is being held hostage by a former employee and his associate North Dakota, who claim that the code Digital Fortress in impenetrable and they will sell it to the highest bidder who will then make it available to all computer software companies so that the NSA can no longer tap into personal emails and computers. If the NSA come clean to the public that they have TRANSLTR they will give them the pass key to the worm virus that is infecting the databank. If they don’t enter the pass key in time then the NSA is exposed to all hackers trying to access the NSA’s secure data files.
Susan Fletcher the beautiful (of course) and talented Cryptographer is called in by her boss to try to an assist whilst her fiancé the equally handsome David Becker a multilingual squash playing professor travels to Spain to find a ring the NSA believes is etched with the pass key.
Can Susan discovery the identity of North Dakota before it is too late and will David stay one step ahead of the assassin who is dispatching all those who come in contact with the ring?
Although I found the main characters shallow and the story line implausible it was still a good fun read. At times I thought I was reading a Matt Reilly as it is quite fast paced. My main critiscm is that Dan Brown has his characters repeat and explain the scenarios like he thinks the reader hasn’t got it yet which is very annoying.
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